Tim Harris & Stephen C Taylor 
The Final Crisis of the Stuart Monarchy 
The Revolutions of 1688-91 in their British, Atlantic and European Contexts

Written in a lively and engaging style, and designed to be accessible to a broader audience, this collection combines new research with the latest scholarship to provide a fresh and invigorating introduction to the revolutionary period that transformed Britain and its empire.


There has been an explosion of interest in the ‘Glorious’ Revolution in recent years. Long regarded as the lesser of Britain’s seventeenth-century revolutions, a faint after tremor following the major earthquake of mid-century, itis now coming to be seen as a major transformative episode in its own right, a landmark event which marked a distinctive break in British history. This collection sheds new light on the final crisis of the Stuart monarchy by re-examining the causes and implications of the dynastic shift of 1688-9 from a broad chronological, intellectual and geographical perspective.

Comprising eleven essays by specialists in the field, it ranges from the 1660s to the mid-eighteenth century, deals with the history of ideas as well as political and religious history, and covers not just England, Scotland and Ireland but also explores the Atlantic and European contexts. Covering high politics and low politics, Tory and Whig political thought, and the experiences of both Catholics and Protestants, it ranges from protest and resistance to Jacobitism and counter-revolution and even offers an evaluation of British attitudestowards slavery. Written in a lively and engaging style and designed to be accessible to a broader audience, it combines new research with the latest scholarship to provide a fresh and invigorating introduction to the revolutionary period that transformed Britain and its empire.


TIM HARRIS is Munro-Goodwin-Wilkinson Professor in European History at Brown University.


STEPHEN TAYLOR is Professor in the History of Early Modern England at Durham University.


Contributors: Toby Barnard, Tony Claydon, John Gibney, Lionel K.J. Glassey, Gabriel Glickman, Mark Goldie, Tim Harris, John Marshall, Alasdair Raffe, Owen Stanwood, Stephen Taylor

Table des matières

In Search of the
Mot Juste: Characterizations of the Revolution of 1688-1689 – Lionel K. J. Glassey

The Damning of King Monmouth: Pulpit Toryism in the Reign of James II – Mark A Goldie

Whig Thought and the Revolution of 1688-91 –

The Restoration, the Revolution and the Failure of Episcopacy in Scotland – Alasdair Raffe

Scotland under Charles II and James II and VII: In Search of the British Causes of the Glorious Revolution – Tim Harris

Ireland’s Restoration Crisis – John Gibney

Ireland, 1688-91 – Toby C Barnard

Rumours and Rebellions in the English Atlantic World, 1688-89 – Owen Stanwood

The Revolution in Foreign Policy, 1688-1713 – Tony Claydon

Political Conflict and the Memory of the Revolution 1689-1745 – Gabriel Glickman

Afterword: State Formation, Political Stability and the Revolution of 1688 – Stephen Taylor

A propos de l’auteur

Mark Goldie is Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College. He has edited or authored 12 books and published more than 60 essays on British political, religious, and intellectual history in the period 1650-1800. Two of his books are published by Boydell and Brewer: The Entring Book of Roger Morrice and Roger Morrice and the Puritan Whigs.